Mowing-machine attachment.



No. 756,360. PATBNTED APP..5,1904.

H. P. HARRAH & W. s. PLINT.

MOWING MACHINE ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 21, 1903-.

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No. 756,360. .PATENTHD APR. 5, 1904.

H. F. HARRAH & W. S. FLINT. I

MOWING MACHINE ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 21, 1903.

UNITED STATES Patented April 5, 1904.

PATENT OEEICE.

HARFORD F. HARRAH AND WILLIAM S. FLINT, OF PENDLETON, OREGON.

MOWlNG-NIACHINE ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 756,360, dated April 5,1904.

Application led August 2l, 1903.

To cir/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known` that we, HAREORD F. HARRAH and WILLIAM S. FLINT, residingat Pendleton, in the county of Umatilla and State of Oregon, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Mowing-MachineAttachments; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of referencemarked thereon, whichform a part of this specification.

Our invention is an attachment to mowingmachines,and is intended as abuncher or windrowing device-that is, it is intended to collect the hayinto bunches or windrows.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of ourinvention attached to a mowing-machine. Fig. Q is a perspective View ofour invention detached.

Our invention is described as follows:

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents an iron bar, flat orotherwise,rwith perforations 2 through its rear edge, and in saidperforations are hinged or otherwise attached rods or slats 3, madeloose in said perforations. The rear ends of these rods or slats dragupon the ground, and the hay when cut by the sickle falls upon theserods. The stubble that remains standing on the ground forces the hayback until it is caught by the bunching-box 4, which rests on the topof-and near the rear ends of said rods, and thus holds the hay. Thefront side of said bunching-box is open. The ends of the rods are turnedup somewhat, and each alternate rod is about three inches, more or less,shorter than the longer ones. The long rods are about four and one-halffeet, more or less, long and the short ones about four feet threeinches, more or less, long.

Secured to and rising from the upper face of each end of the bar 1 areperforated bearings 5, and the bunching-boX 4e, that holds the hay, hasextending forward from each of its ends a hinge-bearing 6, and by meansof said Vhinge-bearing 6 said box is pivoted to the said bearings 5. Thesaid bar 1 is fastened under the sickle-bar 7, as shown in Fig. l. Thegrain-board 8 is taken off and the bar 1 is fasseral No. 170,288. (Nomodel.)

tened underneath and slightly to the rear of said sickle-bar by threeperforated short bars 9 and bolts 10. The said bunching-box 4I iscontrolled by a rod 11, the lower end of which is hinged to the rearwall of said bunchingboX and its upper end to the longer and free end 12of a U-shaped lever-rod 13. The base 14 of said lever-rod is hinged inaneye on the rear end of a plate 15, which is secured on the upper faceand rear end of the tongue 16 of the mowing-machine. The short lever end17 of said U-shaped rod stands at right angles in position to the longend of said U-shaped rod. Near the front end of said plate 16 is secureda bearing 18, in which is hinged a foot-lever 19. Hinged to the free endof the short arm 17 of the U-shaped rod 13 is the rear end of a rod'20,the front end of which is hinged to the foot-lever 19.

The operation of our invention is apparent, but may be briefly describedas follows: .The bunching-box 4, resting upon the trailing rods 3,receives the hay which is cut by the sickle and holds it, and whenenough accumulates upon the rods to make a bunch the driver presses uponthe foot-lever 19, which operation presses the lever 17 back, whichoperation throws the free end 12 of the lever 13 up, and consequentlyelevates lever 11 and the bunching-boX 4, and consequently the stubblesweeps the hay off of the rods in bunches and windrows as desired. Thebox is then allowed to immediately drop back upon the rods, and theoperation is duplicated.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, isM

. A bunching or windrowing device attached to a mowing-machine,consisting of a perforated plate 1, secured under the sickle-bar of themachine; rods, their front ends hinged in said perforations, their rearends adapted to trail on the ground; a bunching-box having its frontside hinged to said plate and its rear side resting on the rear ends ofsaid rods and adapted to catch the hay cut by the machine; a platesecured to the rear end of the tongue of the machine; a foot-leverhinged to the front end of said plate; a U -shaped lever hinged to therear end of said plate, one end IOO of said U-shaped lever connected tosaid foot- In testimonywhereofwe aiix our signatures lever by a rod, itsother end to the rear Wall in presence of two Witnesses.

of Said bunching-boX by a rod, said 1ast-men HARFORD F. HARRAH. tionedparts so arranged that When the foot- WILLIAM S. FLINT.

lever is pressed back, the rear part of said Witnesses:

bunching-box, is raised,substantial1yas shown E. D. BOYD,

and described and for the purposes set forth. I. BOYD.

